Cecilia Bartoli: Opera Proibita

This CD is outstanding. Cecilia Bartoli does not stop surprising from track to track. The technique, the expression, the range, the instrumental interpretation. The ordering of the tracks, which interrupted and mixed the oeuvres, worked to a very nice rhythm.
Bartoli's diaphragm control technique along with her varied timbres make this CD a text-book for singers. What exquisite tenderness for Händel's Lascia la spina cogli la rosa.
Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski appear on this Decca CD. As a bonus, the booklet includes the lyrics to these arias.i

1. Scarlatti: All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Aria dell Pace)


2. Scarlatti: Mentre io godo (Aria della Speranza)


3. Händel: Un pensiero nemico di pace


4. Caldara: Vanne pentita a piangere


5. Caldara: Sparga il senso lascivo veleno


6. Scarlatti: Caldo Sangue


7. Händel: Come nembo che fugge col vento


8. Scarlatti: Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatica


9. Scarlatti: Qui resta...L'alta Roma


10. Händel: Lascia la spina cogli la rosa


11. Scarlatti: Ahi qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto


12. Caldara: Si piangete pupille dolente


13. Caldara: Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco allo splendore


14. Händel: Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno


15. Händel: Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali

Dinu Lipatti: Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert

This CD has been praised so heavily, it was a must-have. And certainly it did not fail to the expectations created.

How sweet was the decrescendo in the sixth movement of the partita.

Beautiful "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" and the sonata for flute & harpsichord #2. Especially in the latter, how beautiful the transcription made by Kempff, that one can distinctly listen the flute in the piano.

Wow! Such a carefree playing of Mozart's Sonata #8 in Am.

The sound of the 1957 recording, that is Schubert's, is a bit too muted, and is the least giving, perhaps for being live. Yet, it is amazing how Lipatti plays each style so distinctively. And how tender and lovingly, yet seemingly carefree, he interprets each.

These recordings were done in 1950, 51 and 57, and they are so clear, a CD by EMI Classics.

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
Partita #1	Bb	BWV 825	Bach	1950
Choralvorspiel		BWV 599	Bach	1951, "Nun komm', der Heiden Heiland" (arr. Busoni)
Chorale Prelude		BWV 639	Bach	1951, "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (arr. Busoni)
Cantata		BWV 147	Bach	1951, "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" (arr. Hess)
Sonata for flute & harpsichord #2		BWV 1031	Bach	1951 (arr. Kempff)
Sonata	E	Kk 380	Domenico Scarlatti	1951
Sonata	Dm	Kk9	Domenico Scarlatti	1951, "Pastorale"
Sonata #8	Am	K310	Mozart	1951
Impromptu	Gb	D.899 N.3	Schubert	1957
Impromptu	Eb	D.899 N.2	Schubert	1957